PREVIOUSLY-

I didn't know how long it was, but I heard sounds from outside, and Seth snapped his head to attention. I feared for all of our safety. Was he still alive? Were my wolves okay? Was he coming back for me?


"Paul, hurry up, bro, they need to get to a hospital!" I heard Seth yell, and I immediately felt some relief, but why hadn't he called for Embry? I saw Paul coming through the doorway.

"They?" Paul asked as he rushed to our side. Seth barely unwrapped his arms from around us and Paul saw me clutching my daughter tightly to my chest, wrapped in my hospital gown. I was covered in blood from the waist down, completely exposed to the world, but I didn't even care. My modesty and embarrassment were nothing compared to the health and safety of my daughter.

Paul reacted immediately, pulling off his soft cutoff sweatpants without a second thought before carefully taking the baby from me, unwrapping her from my hospital gown and gently wrapping her in the sweatpants allowing me to cover myself again. "Seth, go grab me Jared's shorts. He can run back as a wolf if he needs to." Paul instructed and Seth nodded, rushing out the door, completely covered in my blood.

He came rushing back in with a pair of shorts and Paul handed Seth my daughter allowing him to cover his own self again. I could feel myself starting to get dizzy and lightheaded as Paul leaned down to warm me up again. I didn't even feel the cold any longer, which was vaguely disturbing in the back of my mind.

I looked up to see Seth looking down at my sweet baby girl as he used part of the shorts to wipe some of the blood off her face. "She's starting to open her eyes!" He shouted excitedly before his expression immediately changed to one of complete and utter devotion.

Despite my rapidly declining visual capabilities, I knew exactly what had happened.

Seth Clearwater had just imprinted on my daughter.

That was the last thought I had before I felt myself quickly losing consciousness.


A/N- Super short chapter again, I know, but it's on purpose, I swear! 5 more chapters to go (I promise they are all MUCH longer)! To those of you who guessed that Seth would imprint on the baby, congratulations! To those of you who don't like the thought of imprinting on someone 15 years younger than you, I'm sorry, but it's gonna be part of my story. (My father-in-law is 16 years older than my mother-in-law, and my dad is 11 years older than my mom, so it does happen in real life, you know, just usually later on down the line...) I've had the idea in my head ever since I had Seth imprint on Bella as her protector with the whole motherly type of theme. I honestly wouldn't have put the whole Quil/Claire imprint in this story if I didn't plan on this imprint, just so that we'd have some more background information earlier on in the story about how it would be. Now, what will happen to Bella?